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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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A letter from France dated Dec. 6, 1778, expresses curiosity about Tory hopes amid England's isolation, with nations allying against her, merchants failing, manufacturers starving, and unemployed taken into militia to curb crime.
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Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in France, Dec. 6, 1778.
"I have a strong curiosity to know the artifices and subterfuges, with which the Tories keep alive each others hopes. When England cannot get an ally, and many nations preparing to league themselves against her. When her merchants are breaking, her manufacturers starving, and they are obliged to take them into publick pay under the name of militia, to prevent their picking pockets, robbing on the high ways, and plundering in companies all before them."
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England
Event Date
Dec. 6, 1778
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england unable to secure allies; nations preparing to league against her; merchants breaking; manufacturers starving; unemployed enrolled in militia to prevent crime.
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A gentleman in France writes expressing curiosity about how Tories maintain hopes despite England's lack of allies, impending coalitions against her, economic collapse with failing merchants and starving manufacturers, and the necessity of enlisting the destitute as militia to avert widespread theft and plunder.